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FORM designer for Skill

vramanan
vramanan over 15 years ago

Hi Guys

I was wondering is there is any gui development tools for SKILL, It is very tedious to type the FORM file in BNF format and try to debug it

 I searched in the web to no avail, if anyone knows a tool which will let you design the SKILL forms graphically like the forms designer and output the form file please let me know

 mean while I found out some tools that might be of interest

I used to write automated scripts using Autoit it has a free form designer called KODA

www.autoitscript.com/.../formdesign.html

this will save the form file as a KXF file and which is a XML file and can output an autoit script which is similar to visual basic

 

If anyone write a script/tool convet the xml to BNF or autoit to BNF that would be great.

 

for example The output of the koda will look like

$Form1 = GUICreate("Board Template Editor", 752, 561, -1363, 199)
$Tab1 = GUICtrlCreateTab(16, 24, 713, 521)
GUICtrlSetResizing(-1, $GUI_DOCKWIDTH+$GUI_DOCKHEIGHT)
$TabSheet1 = GUICtrlCreateTabItem("Board Details")
$Group1 = GUICtrlCreateGroup("Board Details Input", 32, 64, 681, 449)
$Input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("Input1", 152, 112, 121, 21)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 64, 448, 75, 25)
$Checkbox1 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Checkbox1", 128, 384, 97, 17)
$Checkbox2 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Checkbox2", 280, 384, 97, 17)
$Checkbox3 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Checkbox3", 424, 384, 97, 17)
$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button2", 160, 448, 75, 25)
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Label1", 80, 120, 36, 17)
$Label2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Label2", 80, 152, 36, 17)
$Input2 = GUICtrlCreateInput("Input2", 152, 144, 121, 21)
GUICtrlCreateGroup("", -99, -99, 1, 1)

 

In BNF it should look like

FORM
FIXED
PORT 80 55
HEADER "Board Template Editor"

TILE

TABSET "Board Details"
FLOC 16 24
TSSIZE 713 521

TAB "Pack_Select"

 

 Any help/leads on this regard will be much appreciated

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  • Ejlersen
    Ejlersen over 15 years ago

    Hi

     I just noticed the line "The forming syntaxes are NOT supported by the formeditor."

    in the axlFormBNFDoc document.

    So what is the formeditor??

    Best regards

    Ole

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  • vramanan
    vramanan over 15 years ago

     Hi Ole

    according to cadence there used to be or there is an form editor for unix platforms

    This will be like a GUI designer for skill like VBforms for VB

    My intention is to use KODA form designer, which is a free tool to create autoit script GUI and convert it to skill code,

    I have been successful in some aspects, I am still working on the code and will release the final code when time permits

     

    se here is the what you have to do to see for yourself

    1. install Koda auto it form designer, (follow the link in the first post)

    2. create a form and save it, this will be saved as .kxf

    3. rename it to .xml

    4. run the perl script i have provided xml2bnf <input.xml> <output.il>

    5. load the skill file in allegro and test the form

     

    regards

    Venkata

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  • Ejlersen
    Ejlersen over 15 years ago

    Hi

     

    What perl package are you using. I tried to get the cadence\spb_16.1\tools\perl5 package to work, but it won't install.

     

    Ole

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  • vramanan
    vramanan over 15 years ago

    1. please install the latest perl release from activestate website

    2. after installation you go any command prompt and type ppm

    3. now instal XML::XPath

    4. create forms using koda designer

    5. rename the *.kxf to *.xml

    6. include the *.inc file i have attached in my previous email in the same location as the xml

    7. run per.exe xml2bnf <input.xml> <output.il> in command prompt

     

     

     

     

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  • Ejlersen
    Ejlersen over 15 years ago

    Hi vramanan

    Thanks for your suggestions, I'm however still experiencing some problems.

    I'm running "perl xml2bnf.pl tpages.xml tpages.il" in a command prompt but get the following error "Can't locate Math/Round.pm in @INC <@INC contains: c:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .> at xml2bnf.pl lin 8.

    I've tried placing xml2bnf.pl and the enc file in the C:/Perl/lib directory (and at the same time in the directory with the xml file) but without any luck.

    Best regards

    Ole

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